Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed upon, in principle, last fall in Rio de Janeiro by these same nations. The Stockholm Conference was and still is necessary to formalize the scheme by specifying the circumstances under which a nation may use its SDR's. It must also fix some sort of limit, probably adjusted to a nation's volume of trade and size of GNP, to which the nation may draw, and decide the manner in which the proposal must be ratified by IMF members...
...Search and Destroy. Our strategy in Viet Nam is most definitely not a search-and-destroy strategy, and it is unfortunate that it has been so characterized by some. Search and destroy is merely an abbreviated version of a time-honored infantry mission: "Find, fix, fight and destroy the enemy." It is not a strategy or a tactic; it is a mission. Our military strategy in Viet Nam has had three objectives: 1) provide protection for allied bases, 2) provide security for as much of the population as possible and 3) destroy the enemy armed forces...
...staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration and reservation for the work of both...
...first, Khe Sanh's barren landscape presented problems for the B-52s' radar system, which usually takes a fix on a prominent ground feature, such as a bridge or high building. To solve that, the U.S. employed a recently developed system called "Sky Spot." Using a power ground-control center on South Viet Nam's coast, Sky Spot directed the bombers to the general area of their destination. There, on hilltops miles from the fighting, the U.S. placed meshes of wire that acted as radar reflectors and electronic beacons that emitted continuous signals. Gauging the distance...
Swiss Pool. The three largest Swiss banks-Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corp.-have formed a joint gold pool to share purchases, sales and profits. In place of the London dealers' twice-daily meetings (10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to fix the price of gold, the Swiss-bank traders confer about prices every few minutes throughout the day over direct phone lines. Instead of collecting a commission, the Swiss charge buyers of gold more than they pay sellers. That "spread" started out as high as $3 per oz. in the first days after...